Tech Meme

Sheera Frenkel / New York Times: Meta removes the largest Chinese influence campaign to date from its properties; it spans thousands of accounts, and many are still active on TikTok, X, Reddit  —  The campaign began at least four years ago and spanned thousands of accounts on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X, Substack and Chinese websites, Meta said. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Aisha S Gani / Bloomberg: Swedish payments company Trustly acquires French recurring payments service SlimPay, sources say for €70M; Trustly shelved IPO plans in 2021  —  Swedish payments firm Trustly has acquired the French recurring payments platform SlimPay as it continues its Europe-wide expansion. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alex Heath / The Verge: Snap begins rolling out Dreams, a take on the generative AI selfies that Lensa and others have popularized, for $1 per eight-photo pack, after a first free pack  —  After releasing its My AI chatbot earlier this year, Snapchat is now jumping on the AI selfie bandwagon with a new feature called Dreams. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: Similarweb and Data.ai: Meta blocking news in Canada has had almost no impact on Canadians’ Facebook usage, supporting Meta’s claim that news holds little value  —  Meta’s (META.O) decision to block news links in Canada this month has had almost no impact on Canadians’ usage of Facebook … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Google Cloud announces its 5th generation Tensor Processing Units, promising 2x training performance improvement per dollar compared to 2021’s 4th gen TPUs  —  At Cloud Next, its annual user conference, Google Cloud today announced the launch of the fifth generation of its tensor processing units (TPUs) for AI training and inferencing. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post: Google unveils SynthID, which embeds an invisible digital “watermark” directly into AI-generated images, available now to Cloud customers for Imagen-made images  —  The tech giant is among companies pushing out AI tools while promising to build more tools to protect against their misuse Lees verder op Tech Meme

David Pierce / The Verge: Google plans to update Chat with a new design, Duet AI tools, “huddles” for audio and video calls, capacity for 500K people in group channels, and more  —  Google is making some big changes to Google Chat, its answer to Slack and Microsoft Teams. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Google adds AI tools from others, like Meta’s Llama 2 and Anthropic’s Claude 2, to Cloud, expands Duet AI in Workspace, partners with Fox Sports, and more  —  Alphabet Inc.’s Google is adding artificial intelligence tools from companies including Meta Platforms Inc. and Anthropic to its cloud platform … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Aisha S Gani / Bloomberg: Swedish payments company Trustly acquires French recurring payments service SlimPay, sources say for €70M; Trustly shelved IPO plans in 2021  —  Swedish payments firm Trustly has acquired the French recurring payments platform SlimPay as it continues its Europe-wide expansion. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Associated Press: An OHCHR investigation finds 120K+ people in Myanmar and ~100K people in Cambodia “may be held in situations where they are forced to carry out online scams”  —  The U.N. human rights office says criminal gangs have forced hundreds of thousands of people in Southeast Asia … Lees verder op Tech Meme